<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373   I have held many things in my hands, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373   I have held many things in my hands, and have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And enough for me that when my hand touched your shoulder, you leaned on me; and when you felt me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9128]]></link><description><![CDATA[And enough for me that when my hand touched your shoulder, you leaned on me; and when you felt me slip away, you called my name.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man may blaspheme against the Son of Man and be forgiven; but the sin against the Spirit of Truth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8371]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man may blaspheme against the Son of Man and be forgiven; but the sin against the Spirit of Truth -- what can God Himself do with or for the man who will not acknowledge the truth he knows, or follow the light he sees?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ought to give thanks for all fortune: it is is good, because it is good, if bad, because it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16564]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ought to give thanks for all fortune: it is is good, because it is good, if bad, because it works in us patience, humility and the contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want more than just a ballpark. Our goal is to create a whole district and a destination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29248]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want more than just a ballpark. Our goal is to create a whole district and a destination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27807]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to spend your time at funerals than at festivals. For you are going to die, and you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11363]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to spend your time at funerals than at festivals. For you are going to die, and you should think about it while there is still time.(7:3).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27030]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a wretched thing to rest upon the fame of others, lest, the supporting pillar being removed, the superstructure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50458]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a wretched thing to rest upon the fame of others, lest, the supporting pillar being removed, the superstructure should collapse in ruin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water influences where we develop projects. When there's no way to make water work, we move on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water influences where we develop projects. When there's no way to make water work, we move on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven, Curtain round the vault of heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven, Curtain round the vault of heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20631]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46100]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be what no one ever was, To be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those Extremes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16710]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be what no one ever was, To be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those Extremes that fence all effort in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't want a vote on this tonight, Bert, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38125]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't want a vote on this tonight, Bert,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45177]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a firm believer that it's not the way you look or what you have, but what you've got inside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40249]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a firm believer that it's not the way you look or what you have, but what you've got inside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We started on the county thoroughfare plan but to do that, we had to determine what are county roads and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31266]]></link><description><![CDATA[We started on the county thoroughfare plan but to do that, we had to determine what are county roads and what's not. This plan will be completed in March and we'll continue to prepare for a future growth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170  It was the experience of the disciples who knew Jesus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170  It was the experience of the disciples who knew Jesus both before and after the Resurrection, and the conviction which they communicated to others, that laid the foundation of faith. This faith, once given, proved to be -- like the Person who gave rise to it -- essentially self-authenticating. And ever since, the Church has looked to the Cross, a symbol of weakness, as its unique source of power in preaching the Gospel, its authority both to teach and to preach has been of this kind. No amount of liaison between the Church and the source of any other authority, political or moral, must be allowed to obscure the simplicity -- and the mystery -- of the authority of Christ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate the man who builds his name on the ruins of another's fame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56565]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate the man who builds his name on the ruins of another's fame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man perfect to the finger tips. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50179]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man perfect to the finger tips.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crises refine life. In them you discover what you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crises refine life. In them you discover what you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People in their 20s have a lot of time to grow their investments and don't need to be too conservative, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39468]]></link><description><![CDATA[People in their 20s have a lot of time to grow their investments and don't need to be too conservative,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're thrilled. To have Charles Schwab take the bold step of being one of our original dual-listed companies and to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30800]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're thrilled. To have Charles Schwab take the bold step of being one of our original dual-listed companies and to evaluate both markets on their merits and choose to list solely on Nasdaq is a major validation of the Nasdaq market model.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1880]]></link><description><![CDATA[To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64629]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bring me wine, but wine which never grew In the belly of the grape,  Or grew on vine whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bring me wine, but wine which never grew In the belly of the grape,  Or grew on vine whose tap-roots, reaching through   Under the Andes to the Cape,    Suffered no savor of the earth to escape.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4424]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was messy, but he finished the game. There were moments when he was throwing the ball very well and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31329]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was messy, but he finished the game. There were moments when he was throwing the ball very well and there were times when he lost touch with the strike zone. I was impressed with how he came back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And as, when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green,  The Holly leaves a sober hue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19584]]></link><description><![CDATA[And as, when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green,  The Holly leaves a sober hue display   Less bright than they,    But when the bare and wintry woods we see,     What then so cheerful as the Holly-tree?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25112]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you know that the ready concession of minor points is a part of the grace of life? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you know that the ready concession of minor points is a part of the grace of life?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, When once it is within thee; but before  Mayst ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, When once it is within thee; but before  Mayst rule it, as thou list: and pour the shame,   Which it would pour on thee, upon the floor.    It is most just to throw that on the ground,     Which would throw me there, if I keep the round.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe, with the addition of those additional Iraqi forces, with the gelling of the Iraqi chain of command, with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38362]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe, with the addition of those additional Iraqi forces, with the gelling of the Iraqi chain of command, with good leadership by Prime Minister Allawi and his ministers, that the elections will be able to be held,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53391]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34979]]></link><description><![CDATA[However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Villany reduces those whom it defiles to the same level. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Villany reduces those whom it defiles to the same level.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confidence awakens confidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confidence awakens confidence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness, long life, and health, are the common desire of most men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness, long life, and health, are the common desire of most men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I truly believe that before I retire from public office, I'll be voting for a woman for president. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61021]]></link><description><![CDATA[I truly believe that before I retire from public office, I'll be voting for a woman for president.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crime oft recoils upon the author's head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51136</guid></item></channel></rss>